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The Internet of Things Is Changing How We Manage Customer Relationships

Harvard Business Review

It gave companies some overall measure of revenue compared with marketing spend — something described in this 2007 article in The New York Times. But now that Big Data and the Internet of Things have come along, we can go beyond the transaction to every little detail of the customer’s actual experience.

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How the Meaning of Digital Transformation Has Evolved

Harvard Business Review

Think back to 2007. So much has changed since then. So what exactly has changed when it comes to digital? Today, executives are directing their energy toward artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things. A young U.S. senator named Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

Some of the most notable and disruptive inventions of tomorrow will require a paradigmatic change in the way we interpret things today, in the way we perform tasks, in the technologies and resources we have access to. But perhaps equity-based crowdfunding is the model that will change the way start-ups raise money in the early future.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

Some of the most notable and disruptive inventions of tomorrow will require a paradigmatic change in the way we interpret things today, in the way we perform tasks, in the technologies and resources we have access to. But perhaps equity-based crowdfunding is the model that will change the way start-ups raise money in the early future.

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The U.S. Can’t Count on Technology to Revive the Job Market

Harvard Business Review

Job recovery after the 2007 recession is happening, but slowly, and wage growth is still anemic. The declines in manufacturing jobs during the downturns of 2001 and 2007, which totaled over 5.8 Apart from the effects of the recession, there are concerns about the future of employment in the United States. manufacturing output.

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How Nokia Embraced the Emotional Side of Strategy

Harvard Business Review

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. Not until there’s an option.

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How to Understand the EU-U.S. Digital Divide

Harvard Business Review

According to Commission data collected in a definitive 2014 study from the University of Pennsylvania’s Christopher Yoo, the wide gap in investment per household between the two economies expanded dramatically between 2007 and 2012 (the last year so far reported). In 2007, for example, U.S. Availability. Or provide solace to U.S.

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